Management Processor Monitor: Monitor Recovery and

Table 9-2:POST Diagnostic Results–Bit Assignments

Bit:

Diagnostic Test:

Description:

Value:

0

SDRAM

Verify address and data lines are intact

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Flash

Verify size and initialization of soldered

 

 

 

 

flash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

I2C

Verify all local I2C devices are connected

 

 

 

 

to the I2C bus

 

 

3

Ethernet Switch

Verify PCI communication with switch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

Reserved

 

0

Passed the test

5

PCIe Time-out

PCIe enumeration skipped by user

1

Failure detected

 

 

 

6

DOC Embedded Flash

Verify presence and ability to access

 

 

 

Drive (EFD)

configuration space of DOC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

Cavium 1 Presence

Verify presence and ability to

 

 

 

 

communicate via PCI bus with Cavium 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

Cavium 2 Presence

Verify presence and ability to

 

 

 

 

communicate via PCI bus with Cavium 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9-31

Reserved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitor SDRAM Usage

Monitor SDRAM usage is typically around 1 MB for monitor code and stack support. Please note that the monitor stack grows downward from below where the monitor code resides (in the upper 512 KB). The monitor C stack will typically not grow beyond 512 KB, therefore the upper 1 MB of SDRAM is reserved for monitor use.

Note: The monitor has the ability to preserve (not overwrite) areas of memory defined by the pram environment variable.

Caution: Any writes to these areas can cause unpredictable operation of the monitor.

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MONITOR RECOVERY AND UPDATES

This section describes how to recover and/or update the monitor, given one or more of the following conditions:

If there is no console output, the monitor may be corrupted and need recovering (see the “Recovering the Monitor” section).

If the monitor still functions, but is not operating properly, then you may need to reset the environment variables (see the “Resetting Environment Variables” section).

If you are having Ethernet problems in the monitor, you may need to set the serial number, since the MAC address is calculated from the serial number variable.

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ATCA-9305 specifications

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